What Are

Conic
Sections?
❑Conic sections are obtained by the
intersection of the surface of a cone
with a plane, and have certain
features.
❑The knowledge of
conic sections can
be traced back to
Ancient Greece.
❑The conic sections have been
studies by the ancients Greek
mathematicians with this work
culminating around 200 BC.
 ❑Appollonius of Perga, a Greek
geometer and astronomer,
undertook a systematic study of
their properties and became known
for his theories on the topic of
conic sections.
❑His definitions of the terms
ellipse, parabola and hyperbola are
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❑It was not until the sixteenth century, in
part as a consequence of the invention of
printing and the resulting dissemination
of Apollonius' work, that any significant
progress in the theory or applications of
conic sections occurred; but when it did
occur, in the work of Kepler, it was as part
of one of the major advances in the
history of science.
We see conics
every day.
 They appear everywhere
in the world and can be
man-made or natural.
Conics are found in architecture,
physics, astronomy and navigation.

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 Circle has many uses in
architecture. This is an
example of Conic Section
Circle in Architectural form.
The simple Ferris wheel
becomes attractive.
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 The simple idea of pizza
taking the shape of
circle shows how
important conics really
are in our daily lives.
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This particularity is not casual or isolated, and

appears repeated in different points of the
planet.
Nowadays, the circle is not usually employed
at the time of designing the majority of our
buildings, due to the fact that the use of
circular structures makes it harder for the
structure to be furnished and results more
complicated in plans with perpendicular
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 The Eiffel Tower is known
worldwide to be in the form of
parabola. Thousands of people
see Eiffel Tower everyday, yet they
don’t notice significance of how
the tower was formed. They do
not realized that the parabola is
actually really important in the
structure of the tower.
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 The shape of car
headlights is an
example of the
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parabola.
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 The significance of
Parabola in real life is
awesome because this
is a tourist spot in
Paris, France.
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 The orbit of the
planets around the
sun and satellites
around the Earth
are elliptical.
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 Ellipse are seen everyday and all
around the world. We don’t notice
the importance of this conic, but it
really has an impact on the world.
Ellipse are really important
because planets take an elliptical
path. This occurs in our universe.

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 Ellipse in
Architecture is so
amazing.
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Like the parabola and ellipse,
the hyperbola also has
reflecting properties.
 The hyperbola can also be
applied in some structures to
help in design. The hyperbola
has a few properties that allow
it to play its part in the real
world..

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 This is the
architectural form
of Hyperbola in
Real life.
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Cooling Towers of Nuclear
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-The hyperboloid is the

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CONIC SECTIONS
 CONIC
CONIC SECTIONS
Cross Sections of a Cone
 ❑The model pictured
is a wooden right
circular cone and
shows the conics
sections as they arise
when the cone is cut
Fig 1. Conic Section model showing, from top to
bottom, and ellipse, a parabola, hyperbola and circle
by a plane.
(base of cone). SI image DOR2013-17883
❑A conic section (or simply
conic) is a curve obtained as
the intersection of the surface
of a cone with a plane. The
three types of conic sections
are the hyperbola, the parabola,
and the ellipse. The circle is
type of ellipse, and is
sometimes considered to be a
fourth type of conic section.
 Circular Base

This shape is called

Double Right Angle
Circular Cone

Circular Base
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 Circular Base

A cone has two identically

shaped parts called nappes.
Nappe
One nappe is what most
people mean by “cone,” and
has the shape of a party
hat.
Circular Base
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Conic sections are generated by the
intersection of a plane with a cone.

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 CIRCLE
❑If the plane
intersects the cone
horizontally at 90∘
with the axis
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CIRCLE
❑If the cutting plane
is parallel to the
circular base of the
cone.
 ELLIPSE
❑If the plane
intersects one nappe
at an angle to the axis
(other than 90∘), then
the conic section is an
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ELLIPSE
❑If the cutting plane is not
parallel to a plane tangent to
the cone.
❑Tangent planes to a surface
are planes that just touch the
surface at the point and are
“parallel” to the surface at the
point.
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bottom, and ellipse, a parabola, hyperbola and circle
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 PARABOLA
❑If the plane is
parallel to the
generating line, the
conic section is a
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parabola.
PARABOLA
❑If the cutting plane
is parallel to a plane
tangent to the cone.
Fig 1. Conic Section model showing, from top to Fig 3. Section of cone showing a parabola on the back side
bottom, and ellipse, a parabola, hyperbola and circle
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 HYPERBOLA
❑A plane curve generated by a
point so moving that the
difference of the distances from
two fixed points is a constant.
❑A curve formed by the
intersection of a double right
circular cone with a plane that
cuts both halves of the cone
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Illustration of hyperbola
HYPERBOLA
❑A plane curve generated by a
point so moving that the
difference of the distances from
two fixed points is a constant.
❑A curve formed by the
intersection of a double right
circular cone with a plane that
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HYPERBOLA
❑If the plane is
parallel to the axis of
revolution (the y-axis),
then the conic section
is a hyperbola.
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